Mikko Airaksinen
Mikko is a software architect with over ten years of experience shipping live-service products. His specialty is backends, distributed and realtime systems at scale. He has architected and built backends serving millions of users and worked on data pipelines processing 150+ million documents per run.
As an early engineer at multiple startups, Mikko has worked with a wide range of technologies and problem domains such as live-service games, AI-powered patent search, and car maintenance software. He is just as capable of turning loosely defined product requirements into working software fast as he is of diagnosing and fixing a backend struggling under load.
Outside of work, Mikko is a competitive card gamer with over $70,000 in career winnings from Magic: the Gathering and national championship titles in multiple games.
